Abiotic Factor

Item: Abiotic Factor
Rating: 94
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-05-11

Summary

Addictive gameplay loop, rewarding exploration.
Nostalgic inspiration, engaging story, humorous tone.
Responsive developers, frequent updates improve experience.
Technical issues and poor optimization.
Poor combat and weapon balance.
Slow, grindy progression, lacks content.

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 91%
Unhelpful reviews: 9%
Protest reviews: 0%

94%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
6%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 5524
Negative points: 1736
Gameplay points: 942
Perf. points: 166
Rec. points: 1574
Misc points: 317

Point	Description	Importance
Addictive, deep gameplay loop Description The game features an engaging gameplay loop with balanced crafting, resource management, and exploration. The crafting system is well-designed, rewarding, and integrated with the game's story and setting. The game avoids tedious grinding and offers a wealth of content, customization options, and quality-of-life features. Importance 81%	The game features an engaging gameplay loop with balanced crafting, resource management, and exploration. The crafting system is well-designed, rewarding, and integrated with the game's story and setting. The game avoids tedious grinding and offers a wealth of content, customization options, and quality-of-life features.	81%
Rewarding exploration, intricate level design Description The game features a well-designed, interconnected map that rewards exploration and offers a sense of discovery. The level design is intricate and varied, with each area offering unique challenges, enemies, and resources. The game's world feels alive and immersive, with a compelling narrative and lore that expands on an engrossing original universe. Importance 73%	The game features a well-designed, interconnected map that rewards exploration and offers a sense of discovery. The level design is intricate and varied, with each area offering unique challenges, enemies, and resources. The game's world feels alive and immersive, with a compelling narrative and lore that expands on an engrossing original universe.	73%
Responsive devs, frequent updates Description The developers are highly responsive to player feedback, consistently updating the game with new content, quality-of-life improvements, and bug fixes. The game feels complete and polished, even in Early Access, and the developers demonstrate a clear passion for their work. Importance 66%	The developers are highly responsive to player feedback, consistently updating the game with new content, quality-of-life improvements, and bug fixes. The game feels complete and polished, even in Early Access, and the developers demonstrate a clear passion for their work.	66%
Nostalgic Half-Life/SCP inspiration Description The game's atmosphere, visual style, and narrative draw heavily from classic games like Half-Life and the SCP Foundation lore, creating a nostalgic yet unique experience. This blend of familiar elements with original content enhances the game's immersion and appeal. Importance 45%	The game's atmosphere, visual style, and narrative draw heavily from classic games like Half-Life and the SCP Foundation lore, creating a nostalgic yet unique experience. This blend of familiar elements with original content enhances the game's immersion and appeal.	45%
Highly enjoyable, worth investment Description Reviewers express strong positive feelings towards the game, praising its engaging gameplay, immersive world, and overall fun factor. Many reviewers found the game to be worth the time and money, with some considering it to be among their all-time favorites. Importance 19%	Reviewers express strong positive feelings towards the game, praising its engaging gameplay, immersive world, and overall fun factor. Many reviewers found the game to be worth the time and money, with some considering it to be among their all-time favorites.	19%
Engaging story, humorous tone Description The game features a well-written and engaging story with a humorous tone, charismatic characters, and intriguing lore. The voice acting is enjoyable, and the story is told with charisma and intelligence, mixing tension and comedy in a balanced way. Importance 15%	The game features a well-written and engaging story with a humorous tone, charismatic characters, and intriguing lore. The voice acting is enjoyable, and the story is told with charisma and intelligence, mixing tension and comedy in a balanced way.	15%
Flexible, enjoyable base building Description The game offers flexible and enjoyable base-building mechanics, allowing players to construct bases in various locations using gathered resources. The ability to personalize bases with furniture and decorations adds to the fun and immersion. Importance 13%	The game offers flexible and enjoyable base-building mechanics, allowing players to construct bases in various locations using gathered resources. The ability to personalize bases with furniture and decorations adds to the fun and immersion.	13%
Appealing graphics, rich detail Description The game has appealing graphics and a high level of detail, with a unique art style that contributes to the overall atmosphere. The game prioritizes content and gameplay over visual fidelity, offering a rich and immersive experience. Importance 12%	The game has appealing graphics and a high level of detail, with a unique art style that contributes to the overall atmosphere. The game prioritizes content and gameplay over visual fidelity, offering a rich and immersive experience.	12%
Dynamic day/night cycle, customization Description The game features a day/night cycle that significantly changes the feeling of areas, with power outages plunging locations into darkness and adding a horror element. The game also offers extensive customization of the game server, allowing players to tailor the experience to their preferences. Importance 7%	The game features a day/night cycle that significantly changes the feeling of areas, with power outages plunging locations into darkness and adding a horror element. The game also offers extensive customization of the game server, allowing players to tailor the experience to their preferences.	7%
Unique setting, science-based survival Description The game is set in a unique high-tech underground research facility, with a focus on science-based survival elements. Resources respawn in alternate dimensions, and players can craft weapons and equipment from basic materials. Importance 7%	The game is set in a unique high-tech underground research facility, with a focus on science-based survival elements. Resources respawn in alternate dimensions, and players can craft weapons and equipment from basic materials.	7%
Well-executed, innovative survival game Description Abiotic Factor is a well-executed survival-crafting game that rewards various playstyles, especially in multiplayer. The game offers constant new content and mechanics with every small advancement, and blends survival, crafting, action/combat, and a story-rich environment. Importance 6%	Abiotic Factor is a well-executed survival-crafting game that rewards various playstyles, especially in multiplayer. The game offers constant new content and mechanics with every small advancement, and blends survival, crafting, action/combat, and a story-rich environment.	6%
Scientist survival, unique blend Description The game makes you feel like a scientist trying to survive in a locked-down facility during a crisis, rather than a superhero. The game combines elements from Half-Life 1, Arkane Studio's Prey 2017, Resident Evil, and ARK: Survival Evolved into a unique experience. Importance 5%	The game makes you feel like a scientist trying to survive in a locked-down facility during a crisis, rather than a superhero. The game combines elements from Half-Life 1, Arkane Studio's Prey 2017, Resident Evil, and ARK: Survival Evolved into a unique experience.	5%
Detailed accessibility, customization Description The game includes detailed accessibility settings, such as a misophonia section with volume sliders for different sound categories. The game also offers options to tweak the experience, including disabling the need for food and water. Importance 5%	The game includes detailed accessibility settings, such as a misophonia section with volume sliders for different sound categories. The game also offers options to tweak the experience, including disabling the need for food and water.	5%
Creative, improvised crafting system Description Players can craft weapons like a crossbow from plastic and office rubber bands. The game allows crafting of various weapons from garbage, and players can craft armor using magazines, food trays, buckets, and duct tape. Importance 5%	Players can craft weapons like a crossbow from plastic and office rubber bands. The game allows crafting of various weapons from garbage, and players can craft armor using magazines, food trays, buckets, and duct tape.	5%
Systems-driven, rewards learning Description The game is systems-driven, requiring players to learn and engage with the world's rules. The game provides an ample suite of tools to devise solutions and circumvent problematic situations, and each game session offers a new opportunity to explore, adapt, and evolve. Importance 5%	The game is systems-driven, requiring players to learn and engage with the world's rules. The game provides an ample suite of tools to devise solutions and circumvent problematic situations, and each game session offers a new opportunity to explore, adapt, and evolve.	5%
Gradual story, rich lore Description The story is revealed gradually through holograms and emails, with a rich lore accessible via a tablet. The game avoids generic lore dumps by presenting lore through engaging and realistic staff conversations. Importance 4%	The story is revealed gradually through holograms and emails, with a rich lore accessible via a tablet. The game avoids generic lore dumps by presenting lore through engaging and realistic staff conversations.	4%